Prayer is not a monologue where one person does all the talking, or a ritual where we must say things in the right order, or a chore to get out of the way like brushing our teeth before going to bed.
Jesus rejects this performance-based understan ...
Posted Tuesday, March 1st 2011 at 8:24AM
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This post came from my sister blogger LaShanda Henry and I think it reflects how our own people hate on each other instead of uplifting people like this young sister and helping her to be uplifting, instead they down and denegrate her name. Listen up ...
Posted Monday, February 28th 2011 at 11:11PM
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The great Bishop Noel Jones, discussing the intersection of business and church, the practical and the spiritual, the dialectical and the liturgical. Bishop Noel Jones is considered a profound Christian theologian and intellectual. He has a way with ...
Posted Sunday, February 27th 2011 at 2:03PM
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Egypt was ruled by black pharaohs for nearly 100 years, but their role as leaders of the ancient civilization has been largely kept in the dark because of racism, according to this month's National Geographic magazine.
Scholars and historians have ...
Posted Friday, February 25th 2011 at 2:40PM
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Beyonce is once again being scrutinized for allegedly agreeing to have her skin colour altered for marketing purposes. In 2008 she came under fire when she appeared in a LOreal ad with noticeably paler skin. LOreal was accused of whitewashing her ...
Posted Friday, February 25th 2011 at 11:32AM
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Why Rush Limbaugh (and other critics of the first ladys campaign to improve nutrition) are getting personal about her body and food choices.
Full disclosure: I happen to think that Michelle Obamas efforts to raise awareness about childhood nutr ...
Posted Thursday, February 24th 2011 at 4:38PM
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The Legacy Award honoree shares her journey to becoming a Woman of Power
Long before filmmaker Tyler Perry turned her most famous work For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf into a star-studded cinematic revival, N ...
Posted Thursday, February 24th 2011 at 10:47AM
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I wanted to set the story straight regarding the statement "I'm From The Hood", because some people's thought process is that when you claim hood status, that it in someway relates to poverty and you are in some way celebrating living in poverty and ...
Posted Wednesday, February 23rd 2011 at 6:58PM
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CBS Los Angeles is now reporting new evidence that officers within the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) may have played a role in the death of rapper Christopher Wallace, also known as the Notorious B.I.G and Biggie Smalls.
Wallace was murder ...
Posted Monday, February 21st 2011 at 9:34AM
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
Dear High School Students:Join My High School Newspaper... a note to students from Michael Moore
How inspired are you by the thousands of students from Wisconsin high schools who began walking out of class four days ...
Posted Saturday, February 19th 2011 at 10:01PM
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This tape shows that child on the ground in a surrending position, so why did cops choose to brutaly beat and kick and further more, why was the tape sequestered from the public view? That child may have done something wrong but it wasn't for the pol ...
Posted Thursday, February 17th 2011 at 11:42AM
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CNN is reporting that the parents of a Pace University football player Danroy 'D.J.' Henry who was shot to death by police officer Aaron H... said Tuesday they are not surprised that a grand jury refused to indict the officer, as they believe the jur ...
Posted Tuesday, February 15th 2011 at 5:57PM
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By: Jamila Bey
Conversations with participants at a recent "nurse-in" protest in D.C. show that myths and historical baggage often come between black babies and mother's milk.
The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washingto ...
Posted Tuesday, February 15th 2011 at 5:34PM
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by Frances Martel
The dynamic Bill OReilly and Glenn Beck have developed during their casual Friday meetups on the Factor is typically this: Beck proposes the political theory he has been most promoting on his program that week and OReilly does ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 9:19AM
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By Sharon Frame
This week's topic: God's Love
I got lost in Nazareth three months ago. Yes, that Nazareth; the childhood home of Jesus. Why? I failed to follow simple instructions. It reminded me of when Adam and Eve disobeyed one clear command a ...
Posted Saturday, February 12th 2011 at 11:00AM
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Update: Your voice is making a big difference for Kelley Williams-Bolar
Dear Anita,
Your voice is making a huge difference in the case of Kelley Williams-Bolar, the Ohio mother who was convicted of a felony after allegedly misleading aut ...
Posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at 9:12PM
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Anita: http://goddessdd.ning.com
Carol Moseley Braun, as of yesterday, has proven to the world that she can only go so far in American politics. Part of the political game is having the ability to control your rage in public, remaining focused on th ...
Posted Wednesday, February 9th 2011 at 4:32PM
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By William Browning - When Sarah Palin spoke to the Young America's Foundation on Feb. 4, she was speaking at the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif. Palin tried to invoke the spirit of late President Ronald Reagan but instead used the centennial c ...
Posted Tuesday, February 8th 2011 at 2:41PM
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Anita: http://goddessdd.ning.com/
During a four-year college career, most students take roughly 40 courses. Personally, I went to graduate school for another seven years after college, taking an additional 40 to 50 more classes. During my entire u ...
Posted Tuesday, February 8th 2011 at 1:36PM
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There is no bigger corporate money-maker than the Super Bowl. That's when potential sponsors are lining up to pay amazing amounts of money to advertise, primarily because they know this is the only televised special of the entire year when consumers ...
Posted Tuesday, February 8th 2011 at 1:23PM
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TRIBUTE TO BLACK WOMEN AND THE ORIGINATOR NINA SIMONE. VIEW THIS VIDEO AND MORE AT: http://goddessdd.ning.com/ ...
Posted Tuesday, February 8th 2011 at 12:41PM
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With a classic showmans swagger, Bill OReilly declared that more people would see his live pregame interview with President Barack Obama on Sunday than any other interview thats ever been done in the history of mankind.
He may well have been ...
Posted Monday, February 7th 2011 at 7:49AM
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ACTOR, ACTIVIST, HUMANITARIAN, ECONOMIST, DANNY GLOVER AND MILLIONAIRE NETWORK MARKETER ROCHELLE SAULSBERRY LAUNCH THE MOVEMENT OF THE MASSES
Atlanta, GA (BlackNews.com) -- Actor Danny Glover and Rochelle Saulsberry launch the Movement of the Masses ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 9:04AM
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Hey peeps,
we are making major strides on the Kelley Williams-Bolar case, the woman who was sent to jail for sending her kids to the wrong school district. At this point, Colorofchange.org and Change.org have several hundred thousand signatures ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 8:50AM
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Its been nearly 50 years since civil rights pioneer James Farmer organized the Freedom Rides from Washington, D.C., through Fredericksburg, and on to New Orleans. This year the University of Mary Washington and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) are worki ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 8:38AM
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